[Omake] Using Target outside of a rule body?
Mike Furr
furr at cs.umd.edu
Thu Apr 20 11:28:41 PDT 2006
Mike Furr wrote:
> I have an OCaml project which spans several directories. To build the
> final executable, I would like to just pass the "main" file and have
> OMake figure out all of the object files that need to be linked in.
> Something like:
>
> foo: $(filter %.cmx, $(target main.cmx).build-deps)
> $(OCAMLOPTLINK) -o $@ $(file-sort .BUILDORDER, $+)
>
> However, attempts to use the Target object in the rule declaration gives
> the error "this function can be called only in rule bodies".
Of course, as soon as I posted this, I realized there is no need to
actually have the target list in the declaration. a dependence on
main.cmx will pull in everything else transitively! Grabbing the
build-deps in the body works just fine.
Sorry for the noise,
-mike
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